Issues Decisive for China’s Rise or Fall: An International Law Perspective

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This book focuses on the most serious social and economic challenges faced by China from a public international law perspective. The vast and diversified nature of public international law inspires the author to organize the book on a topic oriented basis, i.e. selecting five most crucial and interrelated issues in contemporary China to investigate and address. It reviews and evaluates China’s response to these challenges and its continuing efforts in searching for solutions to these problems. These issues are inter-related and mutually affective, and moreover, impact collectively on the nation’s standings in the international community. The country’s national stability and economic sustainability may be retained only when these issues are dealt with efficiently and appropriately. This is a timely and comprehensive book addressing the most crucial problems confronted by contemporary China in the field of public international law, mainly concerning border issues, natural resources, environment and corruption. The work not only addresses these issues separately, but also delineates their interrelationships. In doing so, the complexity of these issues is revealed to a full extent. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 An Overview (Yuwa Wei)....Pages 3-20 Energy: The Top Challenge to Contemporary China (Yuwa Wei)....Pages 21-33 China’s Energy Driven Foreign Policies and International Relationships (Yuwa Wei)....Pages 35-48 Front Matter ....Pages 49-49 Territorial Disputes: China and Its Neighbors (Yuwa Wei)....Pages 51-82 Energy Security and Territorial Disputes (Yuwa Wei)....Pages 83-92 Front Matter ....Pages 93-93 Sustainable Development (Yuwa Wei)....Pages 95-108 Clean Energy and Energy Saving Policies in China (Yuwa Wei)....Pages 109-124 Front Matter ....Pages 125-125 Human Rights Issues (Yuwa Wei)....Pages 127-160 The Relationship Between Human Rights and Anti-corruption (Yuwa Wei)....Pages 161-180 A Constructive China in the International Community (Yuwa Wei)....Pages 181-189 Back Matter ....Pages 191-203